Dragon Fruit

I have only one tree of dragon fruit left..

MY DRAGON FRUIT

This morning, I went gor my garden walk, happy to see my new dragon fruits. 

It is nice to see 7 young fruits of my dragon tree

My Dragon Fruit

I had not been taking care of my dragon fruits plants. I was suppose to put fertilizer, the organic type once a month, at least a kilo per tree. As such, the fruits are rather small.

Today I collected 5 fruits...

My Own Dragon Fruits

This was my first trial to plan the tree about 5 years ago. It did work, and I had enough for my own consumption, but it does not last. Now it does not fruit any more.

I also notice that during raining season, too much water had ill effects on it.

 1.Dragon fruits is a sub tropical plant. However it can be grown in the tropic.The best is to plant it from the tree cutting itself. Cut it and leave it on the soil for 3 weeks for it to produce roots. Water it once per week.



There are 2 types that I have come across, the red and the white variety

2. You can plant it from the seeds also. But this will take longer to fruit. Planting from tree can produce fruit within 1 year, but from seed, it can be 2 years.The plan is unique. The seed will produce small plant with a pair of leaves. This is the only leaves it ever get. After that, a spiky stem will grow. The green skin replace the function of the leaves.

After a month, the seedlings are bigger


Planting from seed will produce something like this. Look nice, but it is longer to fruit


You can prepare the pot for the planting. It need a strong support. The weight can exceed 100 kg.

with proper fertilizer, 1 kg of organic fertilizer per month, it can give many healthy fruits. You know that there is no insecticides used

You will be able to taste the fruit of labor with 2 weeks. It will slowly turn to bright red color. After the color turned to red, wait about 7 days before plucking it

The flowers bloom at night and will close the next morning after sunrise. In some locations, the flowers will find it hard to pollinate, thus, it require artificial pollination.

I use a birds feature to collect dust from the male flowers and spread it to the female of different plants, if you do not have the other plant then the other flowers. Last last resort is on the same flower.